I know you can read minor scales in both sharp and flat keys, but which is preferred in the world of music?
Is it more useful to know them best as say Eb minor or D# minor?
I know it doesn't make a ...

I am working on a little theater play accompanying a poetic clown on piano on the stage. Most of time I improvise to emphasize his emotional moods, since there are no words at all.
When the character ...

I've been playing guitar for many years, yet I have made the huge mistake of never really learning scales. I want to catch up, but I'm a bit lost, since there are so many scales in so many different ...

I've been playing my acoustic guitar for three years now and I have been told that I play good. I composed a few instrumentals and they have been quite appreciated. But its not good enough. I can play ...

Can someone tell me what the scale in this video is called please? I am checking out various backing tracks and some of them do not provide the scale like this. They only mention "Dm" or some such, ...

Say, I am going to use my vocal into a chrod progression like C Am Dm G (that belongs to C major scale). Since a chord consists of three notes. As I know I can give voice any notes belonging to that ...

I've noticed over the years that when pracitcing my scales (or just playing in very high registers) that it is noticeably more difficult to play at the very high or very low registers of the piano. I ...

Recently I picked up modes for guitar scales. I just love how this system works and understand it 100%.
However, I have heard about other scales that are not covered with the modes. More specifically, ...

What is a simple way to determine the notes in a scale?
For example, let's say, that somehow you determined that a song you want to play, is in the key F# major. How can you quickly recall or figure ...

I am a beginner with guitars. I watched the video lessons from Coursera - Introduction to Guitar
In that, the instructor explains about the fundamentals of guitars like strumming, position playing, ...

I've been playing guitar for about a month. I know that learning scales is so important, but I just hate learning them. My question is what is the impact of not learning scales from the beginning in ...

I'm learning about music theory and noticed that a C7 chord is based on the following notes: C E A# C E. I imagined a C7 chord should be based off the major scale where the 7th degree is the note B, ...

I always had this issue when naming certain notes in the music scale. For example, when I spell out certain notes such as Eb, some people have advised me to use D# instead of Eb stating that it is the ...

Pardon what I know is an embarrassing question - I am at the very basics of learning music theory.
If a scale such as C Major is an exact pattern of intervals, how can multiple songs be composed with ...

Songs have chord progressions - different chords played in a sequence repeatedly [mostly]. These chords don't belong to a single scale [usually]; they belong to different scales.
As I gather along, ...

I'm aware that A Minor is the relative key to C Major but how does this change the methods for improvising?
Would you use the Pentatonic as you would with C Major or are there other scales which can ...

The song/riff in question is in the intro of a song by "After the Burial" called "Cursing Akhenaten".
I cut a full measure out of the intro and looped it. I uploaded it for anyone who wants to take ...

I'm a guitar beginner and I want to learn some scales.
The problem is that I can't find very detailed tutorials that explain how to find the root note.
Can you give any good basic theories on how to ...

Any major scale contains the same notes as the natural associated minor scale - C major being the easy option contains all the same notes as A minor natural.
But of course we also have other common ...

Say you have a scale and you've found a chord that is rooted at degree 1 of the scale and such that every tone of the chord is in the scale as well. The chord is then said to be compatible with the ...

I'm now studying harmony and since my instrument is not keyboard, I don't know how to execute complex chords such as 13 or other chords that involve more than 5 notes.
Do you play them with just one ...

I'm trying to figure out how I can mix major and minor pentatonic scales and was wondering if someone could explain the underlying theory concepts that would dictate under what chords/chord changes ...